Siri Thinks The Three Laws Of Robotics Start With “Clean Your Room”

The Three Laws of Robotics are supposed to save humankind from an evil robotic uprising. It didn’t really work that way for Will Smith in iRobot, and based on Siri’s answer to the question, “What are the three laws?” we’re probably screwed as well because she doesn’t know them either.

If you ask Siri, “what are the three laws” she’ll respond with the following:

Clean up your room

Don’t run with scissors

Always wait a half hour after eating before going in the water.

Sometimes she’ll even give you a fourth law:

4. A smart machine shall first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task, or instead, to figure some way out of it.

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@Halstead but i’m not asking to “search” for the Law of Robotics. I know what they are. I want to see if Siri knows what they are.

Robert X

Really? You didn’t ask her “What are the three laws of robotics”. What answer did you expect then?

dcdevito

Apple needs to spend more time making Siri functional and available more often. Stupid stuff like this should enrage iOS users who find her unusable most of the time.

Halstead B

@Buster is Siri not an enhanced search engine? Garbage in=Garbage out :)

CaioDA

Spelling error: If you’re familiar with your sci-fi nerd history, the ***Thee*** Laws of Robotics, as written by Isaac Asimov, are as follows…

I’m guessing you meant to write three

Angshed

If you had mentioned “robotics” then you would have gotten the right result as I did when I tried. I don’t know how you can expect to get the right answer when you don’t even give any information on what you want answered except for 3 generic laws.